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(NoM'odeL) N. R. MARSHMAN.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. No. 277,309. Patented May 8,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWMAN R. MARSHMAN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

MECHANICAL MUSICiAL INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,309, dated May 8, 1883. Application filed April 12, 1682. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NEWMAN R. MARSH- MAN, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in the combination, in a mechanical musiealiiistrument, with a rest for a traveling music-sheet having ducts which communicate with sound-producing devices, of a re movable wind-chest arranged above the rest, and a device for connecting said windehest with the means whereby wind isinduced to the sound-producin g devices for operating them. The device for connecting the windchest with the means for inducing wind to the wind-chest may consist of a flexible pipe leading from bellows or from the mouth of the performer. Preferably the wind-chest will have combined with it a spring or springs for impelling it toward the rest,or it will be weighted to subserve the same end.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional side view of a mechanical musical instrument embodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A designates the body of the musical instrument. It may be of any suitable materials and construction, and, as shown, is provided with force-bellows B and a receiver or equalizer, C.

D designates a rest, over which a perforated music-sheet, E, is caused to travel by means of feed-rollers F, one of which is provided with a hand-crank, whereby it may be conveniently driven or actuated. Links or other connections between cranks on the driving feed-roller serve to impart'motion to the bellows. Reeds are arranged in cells which communicate with ducts or apertures in the rest D, that are controlled by the musicsheet E.

G designates a removable wind-chest arranged above the rest D. It works up and down in guideways in rails H, projecting above the body A of the instrument and forming guides for the music-sheet. Springs I impel it downward toward the rest, and may be moved or swung aside to permit of its removal to gain access to the rest. A flexible pipe, J, of india-rubber or other suitable material, connects the receiver or equalizerC with the windchest G, and to enable the latter to be entirely removed from the remainder of the instrument this pipe is attached to a nipple on the windohest, communicating with its interior in such manner that it may be slipped 0d the nipple. Any other connection between the receiver or equalizer and wind-chest that will permit of its removal may be employed.

If desirable, the bellows and receiver or equalizer maybe omitted, and the flexible pipe J may be provided with a mouth-piece,where by the operator is enabled to conveniently supply the necessary wind from his lungs.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination, with a rest for a traveling music-sheet having ducts which communicate with sound-producing devices, of a removable wind-chest and a device for connecting said wind-chest with the means whereby wind is induced to the sound-producin g devices for operating them, substantially as specified.

2. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination, with arest for a traveling music-sheet having ducts which communicate with sound-producin g devices, of a removable wind-chest, a spring or springs, or the equivalent thereof, for impelling it toward the rest, and a device for connecting said wind-chest with the means whereby wind is induced to the sound-producing devices for operating them, substantially as specified.

NEWMAN R. MARSHM AN.

Witnesses T. J. KEANE, En. L. MORAN- 

